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...permafrost continues to subject the area to flooding from intensifying storms blamed on climate change. The smaller NewtokRiver is now shallow and stagnant. The sinking land has knocked homes out of alignment and created obstacle courses of the...

...are most urgent in Newtok, tightly wedged between two rivers. The vast, rushing Ninglick has cut into the smaller NewtokRiver, turning it into a slough. This is the historical sewage dumping place for Newtok's 315 residents, who have no...

...further subjecting the village to flooding from intensifying storms. Hugging the east side of the village is the smaller NewtokRiver. It once flowed freely, but the Ninglick has cut into the Newtok's circulation, turning it into a slough as sediments...

...of the original entrance to the NewtokRiver, on the bank opposite the Ninglick, according to Tom. The NewtokRiver becomes shallower every year...hard time coming in through the NewtokRiver to deliver," Tommy said. In...

...vast, raging river.Tommy, who works in the village store, remembers when the Ninglick River was far away and the NewtokRiver flowed deeply decades ago. Now the Ninglick is just minutes away, creeping ever closer to homes in the Yupik Eskimo...

...of the original entrance to the NewtokRiver, on the bank opposite the Ninglick, according to Tom. The NewtokRiver becomes shallower every year...hard time coming in through the NewtokRiver to deliver," Tommy said. In...

...as they can, driven by the aggressive erosion that's already gobbled up the old barge landing and eaten into the NewtokRiver, turning it into a slough. Only a few hundred feet of swampy tundra remain between the community and another river...

...like thinking." Or he dreams about the floods that turn the village into an island, unleashing raw sewage from the NewtokRiver. This is the historical honey bucket dumping site that's turned sluggish in recent years with no other sanitation...

...permafrost, which is melting and sinking, further subjecting the village to flooding from intensifying storms. The smaller NewtokRiver hugs the east side of the village and once flowed freely, allowing barges to make regular deliveries of fuel and other...

...now." The narrow, meandering NewtokRiver loops around the village and once...tides to raise the level of the NewtokRiver before they could make a delivery...was attempted. Conditions on the NewtokRiver have deteriorated so much that...